| Title | Author | Level | Points | Description | # pages | Book in Library |
| I Am Lost! | Wilhelm, Hans | 0.4 | 0.5 | A little dog gets lost and learns to find his way home again. | 30 | Y |
| I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! | Seuss, Dr. | 2.1 | 0.5 | Chronicles a family's attempts to get one brother out of bed. | 40 | Y |
| I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today | Seuss, Dr. | 2.9 | 0.5 | Three stories in verse: I Can Lick Thirty Tigers Today!, King Looie Katz, and the Glunk That Got Thunk. | 59 | Y |
| I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! | Seuss, Dr. | 2.2 | 0.5 | The Cat in the Hat takes Young Cat in tow to show him the fun he can get out of reading. | 40 | Y |
| I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew | Seuss, Dr. | 3.6 | 0.5 | Walking while not looking is the beginning of a young boy's problems. | 59 | Y |
| I Have a Sister - My Sister Is Deaf | Peterson, Jeanne Whitehouse | 3.3 | 0.5 | A young girl describes how her deaf sister experiences everyday things. | 15 | Y |
| I Like Ketchup Sandwiches | Conway, Lisa | 1.7 | 0.5 | While bored on a long car trip, a child tries to think of all the things she likes. Before she knows it, they have arrived at their destination. | 23 | |
| I Like Things | Hillert, Margaret | 1 | 0.5 | Easy-to-read text describes collections of familiar items which have been arranged by color. | 31 | Y |
| I Lost My Tooth! | Wilhelm, Hans | 0.7 | 0.5 | When Puppy's tooth comes out and he loses it, he figures out a way to get treats from the Tooth Fairy anyway. | 30 | Y |
| I Love You, Dear Dragon | Hillert, Margaret | 0.8 | 0.5 | A boy and his pet dragon celebrate Valentine's Day by noticing all the red things they see, making Valentines, and eating a Valentine cake. | 31 | Y |
| I Need You, Dear Dragon | Hillert, Margaret | 0.8 | 0.5 | Dear Dragon feels rejected when his master's new baby sister comes home from the hospital. | 31 | |
| I Should Worry, I Should Care | Chaikin, Miriam | 3.7 | 3 | A young Jewish girl and her family adjust to a new neighborhood and new friends at a time when the radio is telling of Hitler's rise to power in Europe. | 103 | |
| I Speak English for My Mom | Stanek, Muriel | 2.8 | 0.5 | Lupe, a young Mexican American, must translate for her mother who speaks only Spanish until Mrs. Gomez decides to learn English in order to get a better job. | 27 | Y |
| I Took My Frog to the Library | Kimmel, Eric A. | 2.5 | 0.5 | A young girl brings her pets to the library--with predictably disastrous results. | 25 | Y |
| I Want to Go Home! | Korman, Gordon | 4.3 | 6 | Nobody hates camp more than Rudy Miller does. | 182 | |
| I Was So Mad! | Simon, Norma | 2.5 | 0.5 | Presents simple descriptions of situations which provoke anger in young children with the message that these feelings are normal. | 33 | Y |
| I, Houdini | Banks, Lynne Reid | 6.2 | 5 | A boastful hamster with exceptional talent as an escape artist, recounts his experiences chewing, wriggling, or squeezing his way out of various closed areas in his quest for the great outside. | 127 | Y |
| I, Juan de Pareja | Borton de Treviña | 6.5 | 7 | After the slave Juan de Pareja is willed to the great Spanish painter Veláis experiences chewing, wriggling, or squeezing his way out of various closed areas in his quest for the great outside. | 180 | Y |
| Ice Cream Soup | Herman, Gail | 1.1 | 0.5 | Sam and Pam take their time bringing home ice cream for the family and find a surprise in the package at the end of their journey. | 21 | |
| Ice Princess, The | Lowell, Melissa | 4.3 | 3 | Tori's favorite skating star is in town, and Tori soon realizes she is not the sweet champion everyone thinks. | 115 | |
| Ice-Cold Birthday | Cocca-Leffler, Maryann | 1.6 | 0.5 | A big snowstorm threatens to spoil a birthday party but also creates some unforeseen opportunities for special fun. | 32 | Y |
| Icelandic Ponies | Schrenk, Hans-Jorg | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book is a study of Icelandic Ponies. | 48 | |
| Ichthyosaurus and Little Mary Anning | Hartzog, Brooke | 4.6 | 0.5 | An account of the English girl who, at age twelve, discovered the first complete ichthyosaurus skeleton, and who continued to collect and study fossils throughout her life. | 24 | Y |
| Ida Early Comes over the Mountain | Burch, Robert | 4.8 | 4 | Tough times in rural Georgia during the Depression take a lively turn when spirited Ida Early arrives to keep house for the Suttons. | 145 | Y |
| Idaho | Kent, Zachary | 8.2 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Idaho's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 142 | |
| If I Ran the Circus | Seuss, Dr. | 3.9 | 0.5 | Young Morris McGurk has big plans for starting a circus in the vacant lot behind Snellocks' Store. | 58 | Y |
| If I Ran the Zoo | Seuss, Dr. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Young Gerald McGrew imagines the animal he'd have in the zoo if he were in charge. | 54 | Y |
| If UFOs Are Real | Koss, Larry | 5.6 | 1 | Examines sightings, studies, and projects related to unidentified flying objects and discusses the search for life in space. | 48 | Y |
| If You Didn't Have Me | Nilsson, Ulf | 4.2 | 3 | A small Swedish boy spends the summer on his grandmother's farm while his parents build a new house. | 113 | Y |
| If You Give a Moose a Muffin | Numeroff, Laura | 2.4 | 0.5 | Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests. | 29 | Y |
| If You Give a Mouse a Cookie | Numeroff, Laura | 2.7 | 0.5 | Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young boy's day. | 28 | Y |
| If You Give a Pig a Pancake | Numeroff, Laura | 2.5 | 0.5 | One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake. | 30 | Y |
| Iggie's House | Blume, Judy | 3.5 | 3 | When Grove Street gets its first black family, Winnie is a welcoming party of one. | 117 | Y |
| I'll Meet You at the Cucumbers | Moore, Lilian | 3.5 | 1 | Adam and Junius, two country mice, go for a visit to the city, where Adam despairs when his dear friend admits he might like to stay. | 63 | Y |
| Illinois | Stein, R. Conrad | 8.1 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Illinois' geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Illyrian Adventure, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.5 | 5 | Vesper Holly sails to the tiny country of Illyria to search for the treasure and magical army of King Vartan by the author of the Prydain Chronicles. | 132 | Y |
| I'm Not Who You Think I Am | Kehret, Peg | 4.6 | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Ginger becomes the target of a disturbed woman who believes that Ginger is her dead daughter. | 154 | Y |
| Imogene's Antlers | Small, David | 2.6 | 0.5 | One Thursday, Imogene wakes up with a pair of antlers growing out of her head and causes a sensation wherever she goes. | 26 | Y |
| Impy for Always | Koller, Jackie French | 3.5 | 1 | Eight-year-old Impy, dismayed at the changes she sees in her rapidly maturing twelve-year-old cousin Christina, stubbornly tries to continue their former sharing of dolls and funny nicknames, but Christina persists in growing up. | 57 | |
| In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories | Schwartz, Alvin | 2.5 | 0.5 | Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries. | 63 | Y |
| In the Dinosaur's Paw | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.5 | 1 | Richard "Beast" Best finds a magic ruler in his desk at school, and his wishes start coming true. | 72 | Y |
| In the Face of Danger | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 5 | 6 | Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family. | 151 | Y |
| In the Small, Small Pond | Fleming, Denise | 2 | 0.5 | Illustrations and rhyming text describe the activities of animals living in and near a small pond as spring progresses to autumn. | 29 | Y |
| In the Spotlight | Lowell, Melissa | 4.9 | 4 | Danielle has just won the lead role in the Silver Blades Ice Show and feels her hard work has finally paid off, but is the pressure more than she can handle? | 131 | |
| In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | Lord, Bette Bao | 4.6 | 4 | In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn, where she starts to feel at home and makes friends when she discovers baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers. | 169 | Y |
| Inch by Inch | Lionni, Leo | 1.8 | 0.5 | An inchworm teaches the birds how he measures. | 32 | |
| Incident at Hawk's Hill | Eckert, Allan | 7.2 | 9 | Set in 1870, this story about a boy and a badger is based on an actual incident. | 191 | Y |
| Incredible Journey, The | Burnford, Sheila | 7.6 | 5 | Three house pets migrate through the wilderness to find their family. | 145 | Y |
| Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | Lenski, Lois | 5.4 | 10 | Authentic reconstruction of Mary Jemison's capture and life with the Seneca Indians. | 298 | Y |
| Indian in the Cupboard, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 4.6 | 6 | A young boy discovers that his magic cupboard and key can turn toys into live people and animals. | 181 | Y |
| Indian Ocean, The | Taylor, Leighton | 5.5 | 1 | In text and photographs, presents information about the Indian Ocean, its location, physical environment, animal life, islands, and mysteries. | 48 | Y |
| Indiana | Stein, R. Conrad | 8.3 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Indiana's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| Insects (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book discusses the beauty, variety, and importance of the miniature world of insects. | 24 | Y |
| Insects of the Rain Forest | Woods, Mae | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book describes a variety of insects that live in the rain forest, and discusses some of their adaptations to that environment. | 24 | |
| Into the Dream | Sleator, William | 4.9 | 4 | When two youngsters realize they are having the same frightening dream, they begin searching for an explanation for this mysterious coincidence. | 137 | |
| Into the Mummy's Tomb | Reeves, Nicholas | 6.9 | 2 | An account of Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun, descriptions of the artifacts inside and their importance, the discovery in 1988 of more artifacts, and theories about the curse associated with the tomb. | 64 | Y |
| Inuit (Native Peoples), The | Lassieur, Allison | 4 | 0.5 | This book gives an overview of the Inuit. | 24 | Y |
| Invasion, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.7 | 5 | Jake and his friends take a shortcut one night and meet an alien after his ship crashes. | 184 | Y |
| Invisible Island, The | Roy, Ron | 3.6 | 1 | While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred-dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money. | 87 | Y |
| Invisible Man, The | Wells, H.G. | 7.7 | 9 | In this modern classic mystery, a scientist must face the consequences of rendering himself invisible with a secret formula. | 178 | |
| Iowa | Kent, Deborah | 8.3 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Iowa's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Ira Sleeps Over | Waber, Bernard | 2.2 | 0.5 | Invited to spend the night at a friend's house, Ira wants to bring his teddy bear but is afraid of being teased. | 48 | Y |
| Irish Red | Kjelgaard, Jim | 5.8 | 7 | A boy and his dog face a killing snowstorm and a murderous puma. | 182 | Y |
| Iroquois Indians (Native Peoples), The | Lund, Bill | 3.6 | 0.5 | Discusses the Iroquois as a modern group with a unique history and its own special practices and customs. | 23 | Y |
| Is That You, Winter? | Gammell, Stephen | 1.6 | 0.5 | Though Old Man Winter starts off the day feeling grumpy, his mood improves when he is reminded of how special he really is. | 29 | Y |
| Is There Life in Outer Space? | Branley, Franklyn M. | 3.5 | 0.5 | An illustrated introduction to the concept of life on other planets. | 32 | Y |
| Is Your Mama a Llama? | Guarino, Deborah | 1.6 | 0.5 | A young llama asks his friends if their mamas are llamas and finds out, in rhyme, that their mothers are other types of animals. | 27 | Y |
| Island of One, The | Bunting, Eve | 4.1 | 1 | When an asteroid threatens to destroy their space island, the sole survivors of the destruction of Earth must find a new place to go. | 60 | Y |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | O'Dell, Scott | 5.4 | 6 | An Indian girl is left alone on an island for ten years. | 181 | Y |
| Island of the Skog, The | Kellogg, Steven | 3.5 | 0.5 | To escape the dangers of urban life, Jenny and her friends sail away to an island, only to be faced with a new problem--its single inhabitant--the Skog. | 24 | Y |
| Island on Bird Street, The | Orlev, Uri | 4.6 | 7 | During World War II, a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constant life-threatening conditions. | 162 | Y |
| It Came from Beneath the Sink! | Stine, R.L. | 3.1 | 2 | Kat and Daniel find something really evil living in their new house. Something that comes from beneath the kitchen sink. | 112 | Y |
| Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox | Maccarone, Grace | 0.7 | 0.5 | Spunky rhythm and peppy rhymes in a lively story that shows how to deal with chicken pox. | 30 | Y |
| It's a Dog's Life | Erickson, John R. | 4.8 | 3 | Duped into thinking the world is coming to an end, Hank the Cowdog winds up in town for some more adventures, including getting in and out of a case of "soap hydrophobia." | 136 | Y |
| It's Circus Time, Dear Dragon | Hillert, Margaret | 0.9 | 0.5 | A boy and his dragon go to the circus, where the dragon performs some unexpected tricks on a high wire. | 31 | |
| It's Like This, Cat | Neville, Emily Cheney | 4.7 | 5 | A teenage boy in New York City gets a cat instead of a dog simply to annoy his father, then begins to learn that his father is a caring human being, not just a strict parent. | 180 | Y |
| It's Our World, Too! | Hoose, Phillip | 6 | 7 | An empowering book that makes social activism real for kids through the stories of people determined to make a difference. | 165 | Y |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | Kellogg, Steven | 4.1 | 0.5 | The author/illustrator brings this timeless tale to life with the zest and energy that are his trademarks. | 36 | Y |
| Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns | Quattlebaum, Mary | 3.2 | 2 | Jackson wants a basketball for his birthday, but his mother gives him a garden plot near their inner-city apartment. | 113 | Y |
| Jacob Have I Loved | Paterson, Katherine | 5.7 | 8 | Sibling rivalry divides twin sisters living on an island in Chesapeake Bay. | 175 | Y |
| Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang | Richler, Mordecai | 5.2 | 2 | Delightful fantasy about a little boy condemned to prison for insulting an adult, and how he escapes. | 87 | Y |
| Jade Green: A Ghost Story | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.8 | 5 | While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings. | 168 | Y |
| Jaguars (Wild Cats) | Welsbacher, Anne | 3.4 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of jaguars, large wild cats that live in Mexico, Central and South America. | 24 | Y |
| James A. Garfield | Lillegard, Dee | 7.4 | 1 | A biography of the twentieth President of the United States, the last President to be born in a log cabin. | 89 | Y |
| James and the Giant Peach | Dahl, Roald | 4.8 | 4 | Madcap adventures take place as young James enters a peach as big as a house and encounters wonderful new friends. | 126 | Y |
| James Buchanan | Brill, Marlene Targ | 7.5 | 2 | Describes the early life and political career of the man who served as President in the years just before the Civil War. | 89 | Y |
| James Carter | Wade, Linda R. | 7.2 | 1 | Describes the life and achievements of the relatively unknown governor from Georgia who became president of the United States in 1977. | 89 | Y |
| James K. Polk | Lillegard, Dee | 7.6 | 2 | A biography of the eleventh American President, whose term in office saw great expansion of the western frontier. | 89 | Y |
| James Madison | Clinton, Susan | 7.2 | 2 | Recounts the story of America's fourth President, known as the Father of the Constitution, describing his early life in Virginia and his many years of service in public office. | 89 | Y |
| James Monroe | Fitz-Gerald, Christine Maloney | 5.9 | 2 | The life and long political career of the fifth President of the United States whose Monroe Doctrine proclaimed opposition to further European control in the western hemisphere. | 89 | Y |
| Janitor's Boy, The | Clements, Andrew | 5.4 | 4 | Fifth grader, Jack, finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his anger onto his father. | 140 | Y |
| Jar of Dreams, A | Uchida, Yoshiko | 5 | 4 | Growing up in depression-era California, Rinko feels left out because she is Japanese. | 131 | Y |
| Jason's Gold | Hobbs, Will | 5.5 | 8 | When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 5000-mile journey to strike it rich. | 221 | |
| Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men of the American West | Allen, John Logan | 9.2 | 5 | This book chronicles the exploits of the mountain men who opened many trails and passages through the American West in the early 19th century. | 119 | Y |
| Jedi Under Siege | Anderson/Moesta | 6.7 | 5 | The young Jedi knights must fight to protect the Jedi academy from the dark side; if they are defeated, a final cloak of darkness will fall over the entire galaxy. | 218 | |
| Jelly Belly | Smith, Robert Kimmel | 4.1 | 4 | It's tough for eleven-year-old Ned to stop eating. At 4 feet 8 inches tall, he weighs 109 pounds and keeps growing wider. | 155 | |
| Jellyfish (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 5.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the size, shape, colors, and stinging tentacles of jellyfish, and examines their survival in the world's waters since before the age of the dinosaurs. | 47 | Y |
| Jellyfish (Early Bird Nature Books) | Taylor, Leighton | 3.3 | 0.5 | Describes the life cycle, habitat, behavior, and physical structure of the soft-bodied sea animal that has no brain or bones. | 47 | |
| Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig | King-Smith, Dick | 4.8 | 1 | Eight-year-old Judy tries to convince her parents and classmates that her brilliant guinea pig can do all the tricks she says. | 52 | Y |
| Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth | Konigsburg, E.L. | 4.5 | 3 | Lonely Elizabeth decides to be an apprentice witch to Jennifer, and that's when the fun starts. | 117 | Y |
| Jenny Archer, Author | Conford, Ellen | 3.6 | 1 | Stymied by an assignment to write her autobiography, Jenny decides to enhance her life story by using her considerable imagination. | 61 | Y |
| Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher | Coville, Bruce | 4.9 | 4 | Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg. | 148 | Y |
| Jessi and the Bad Baby-sitter | Martin, Ann M. | 4.1 | 4 | The club welcomes a new member, Wendy, who is a friend of Jessi's; but is she Baby-Sitters Club material? | 138 | |
| Jim Meets the Thing | Cohen, Miriam | 2.5 | 0.5 | Jim is ashamed to admit he is scared of The Thing on television. | 29 | Y |
| Jim Ugly | Fleischman, Sid | 4.3 | 3 | This story tells of the adventures of twelve-year-old Jake Bannock and Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father. | 130 | Y |
| Jimmy's Boa and the Big Splash Birthday Bash | Noble, Trinka Hakes | 2.7 | 0.5 | Jimmy's birthday at SeaLand turns out to be a big splash when everyone ends up in the big tank. | 27 | |
| Jimmy's Boa Bounces Back | Noble, Trinka Hakes | 2.7 | 0.5 | A pet boa constrictor wreaks havoc on a posh garden party. Sequel to The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate The Wash. | 27 | |
| Jim's Dog Muffins | Cohen, Miriam | 2.3 | 0.5 | Jim won't talk or listen to anyone after his dog is killed. | 28 | Y |
| Jingle Bells, Homework Smells | De Groat, Diane | 3.3 | 0.5 | Gilbert forgets to do his homework over the weekend because he is busy playing in the snow and getting ready for Christmas. At the last minute, he comes up with a solution. | 28 | Y |
| Job for Jenny Archer, A | Conford, Ellen | 3.1 | 1 | Convinced that her family is poor because her parents refuse to get her a horse or a swimming pool, nine-year-old Jenny Archer follows her own path to making money, including a plunge into real estate that puts her house on the market. | 76 | Y |
| John Adams | Brill, Marlene Targ | 7.3 | 2 | A biography of the outspoken, decisive man who served the United States in many ways, including as its President. | 89 | Y |
| John F. Kennedy | Kent, Zachary | 7.4 | 2 | Chronicles the life and tragic death of the man who championed foreign relations, civil rights, and space exploration as the thirty-fifth President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| John Henry | Lester, Julius | 4 | 0.5 | Retelling of the legend of the African American folk hero. | 36 | Y |
| John Henry: An American Legend | Keats, Ezra Jack | 3.4 | 0.5 | Handsome book about the American folk hero who challenged the modern steam drill to a contest of strength. | 28 | Y |
| John Quincy Adams | Kent, Zachary | 7.7 | 2 | A biography of the sixth President who continued the family dedication to public service begun by his father, the second President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| John Tyler | Lillegard, Dee | 7.5 | 1 | A biography of the Virginian who became tenth President of the United States, upon the death of William Henry Harrison. | 89 | Y |
| Johnny Appleseed | Kellogg, Steven | 4.4 | 0.5 | Presents the life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, describing his love of nature, his kindness to animals, and his physical fortitude. | 36 | |
| Johnny Tremain | Forbes, Esther | 5.9 | 13 | This book follows a young apprentice from a tragic accident in a silversmith's shop to his dramatic involvement as a patriot in the days just before the American Revolution. | 293 | Y |
| Jo's Boys (Unabridged) | Alcott, Louisa May | 8.8 | 18 | The story of a teacher's struggle to unlock the mystery of a child's pain and rediscover the child who has been lost to a world far more sinister than anyone could suspect. | 350 | Y |
| Joshua's Dream: A Journey to the Land of Israel | Segal, Sheila | 4.2 | 0.5 | Joshua's dream of taking part in the transformation of Israel's desert land finally comes true. | 26 | Y |
| Journey | MacLachlan, Patricia | 3.8 | 2 | When Journey and Cat's mother goes off, leaving them with their grandparents, the two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them. | 83 | Y |
| Journey from Peppermint Street | De Jong, Meindert | 5 | 8 | Siebren goes on a journey with his grandfather and learns about people, about fear, and about love. | 242 | |
| Journey into Terror | Wallace, Bill | 4.2 | 5 | Samuel visits his father in Oklahoma City and becomes involved in a journey of terror. | 164 | |
| Journey Outside | Steele, Mary | 5.7 | 5 | Young Dilar of the Raft People lives on a subterranean river. Then he sets out on a quest and discovers Outside. | 127 | Y |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Verne, Jules | 9.9 | 17 | A team of explorers makes an expedition into a crater in Iceland, which leads to the center of the earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries. | 288 | Y |
| Julian, Dream Doctor | Cameron, Ann | 2.9 | 1 | Julian and Huey try to find the perfect birthday gift for Dad with amusing results. | 62 | Y |
| Julian's Glorious Summer | Cameron, Ann | 3.1 | 1 | When his best friend, Gloria, receives a new bike, seven-year-old Julian makes up a story about why he can't take the time to learn to ride rather than face his fears. | 62 | |
| Julie | George, Jean Craighead | 5 | 6 | Julie returns to live with her father and finds she must make choices between the old and the new in this sequel to Julie of the Wolves. | 226 | Y |
| Julie of the Wolves | George, Jean Craighead | 5.8 | 6 | Common sense and courage enable a young Eskimo girl to survive when she becomes lost in the Arctic wild. | 170 | Y |
| Jumanji | Van Allsburg, Chris | 3.9 | 0.5 | Two children play a dice game, Jumanji, that must be played to the very end. | 27 | Y |
| Jumping Spiders (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 4 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Jumping Spider. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves from dangers. | 21 | Y |
| Jungle Book (Books 1 & 2), The | Kipling, Rudyard | 7.4 | 20 | A baby boy is abandoned deep in the jungle and is taken in by a she-wolf to be raised as one of her own. | 380 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | Junie is pretty upset about her new baby brother; but when she finally sees him, she goes ape. | 68 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth | Park, Barbara | 3 | 1 | Junie creates the strangest job description for career day at school. | 69 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | Junie spies on her teacher and gets into real trouble. | 66 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim's Birthday | Park, Barbara | 2.8 | 1 | Junie B. is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps her deal with the situation. | 85 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | When Junie B. Jones receives a mushy gushy "valentime" on Valentine's Day, she tries to find out who her secret admirer is. | 69 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | Junie goes off to kindergarten and gets locked in the school. | 69 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake | Park, Barbara | 2.7 | 1 | Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartner, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival; but a fruitcake was not exactly what she had in mind. | 71 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed | Park, Barbara | 2.7 | 1 | After hearing from a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep. | 69 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy | Park, Barbara | 2.8 | 1 | After her first trip to a beauty parlor Junie decides she wants to work there, and she practices on her bunny slippers, her dog, and herself with disastrous results. | 67 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal | Park, Barbara | 2.8 | 1 | Lucille invites Junie B. and her friend Grace to sleep over at her rich nanna's house, where everything is beautiful and breakable. | 71 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones Is Almost a Flower Girl | Park, Barbara | 2.7 | 1 | Six-year-old Junie B. is disappointed to find out that her aunt has asked someone else to be the flower girl at her wedding. | 68 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook | Park, Barbara | 3 | 1 | Junie B. Jones experiences glee while showing off her new, furry mittens in kindergarten, but disaster strikes when her mittens disappear. | 67 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren | Park, Barbara | 2.7 | 1 | Unable to compete with her friends' fancy clothes and running ability, irrepressible six-year-old Junie B. finds her own way to make the new boy at school like her. | 71 | Y |
| Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy | Park, Barbara | 2.6 | 1 | Frustrated because the rules for her class's Pet Day will not let her take her dog to school, Junie B. Jones considers taking a racoon, a worm, a dead fish, and other unusual replacements. | 66 | Y |
| Jupiter (A True Book) | Brimner, Larry Dane | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the appearance, climate, moons, and exploration of the largest planet in the solar system. | 47 | |
| Jupiter (Our Universe) | McDonald, Mary Ann | 4.2 | 0.5 | Describes the location, movements, surface and moons of the planet Jupiter. | 32 | Y |
| Jurassic Dinosaur World | Green, Tamara | 7.6 | 1 | Provides a look at some of the prehistoric creatures that lived in the Jurassic period, including Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, Segisaurus, Compsognathus, Shonosaurus, and Pterodactylus. | 32 | |
| Just a Dream | Van Allsburg, Chris | 3.6 | 0.5 | When he has a dream about a future Earth devastated by pollution, Walter begins to understand the importance of taking care of the environment. | 44 | Y |
| Just Another Name for Lonely | Schraff, Anne | 4.4 | 3 | Tina wishes she had never come back to Albuquerque. Her old girlfriends are snubbing her, and the boys are only interested in her unearned reputation. How can she overcome the torrent of rumors swirling around her? | 107 | |
| Just Call Me Stupid | Birdseye, Tom | 4.5 | 5 | A teacher and a classmate help a troubled boy learn how to read. | 181 | Y |
| Just Lost! | Mayer, Gina/Mercer | 2.6 | 0.5 | Little Critter gets lost in the shopping mall. | 23 | Y |
| Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World | Walter, Mildred Pitts | 3.9 | 3 | Suffering in a family full of females, Justin learns real lessons in what "women's work" is, when he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch. | 122 | Y |
| Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Henry, Marguerite | 5.8 | 5 | A remarkable little work horse that could walk faster, trot faster, run faster, and pull heavier logs than any other horse in all Vermont, sires a famous family of American horses. | 169 | Y |
| Kangaroos (Australian Animals Discovery) | Stone, Lynn M. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Describes habitat, lifestyle, infancy, predators, relationship with humans, and future of this well-known Australian animal. | 24 | Y |
| Kangaroos (Creative Ed.) | Brust, Beth Wagner | 5.3 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the kangaroo, the largest hopping animal in the world. | 24 | Y |
| Kangaroos for Kids/Kangaroo Magic for Kids | Lehne, Judith Logan | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics and behavior of different varieties of kangaroos. | 48 | |
| Kansas | Kent, Zachary | 8.5 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Kansas' geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Karen's Brothers | Martin, Ann M. | 2.8 | 1 | Karen, tired of being "treated like a girl," takes it out on all of the males she encounters. | 95 | Y |
| Karen's Ghost | Martin, Ann M. | 3.1 | 1 | Karen believes her attic is haunted by her great-grandfather's ghost. | 101 | |
| Karen's Goldfish | Martin, Ann M. | 3 | 1 | Karen mourns the passing of her pet goldfish. | 98 | Y |
| Karen's Grandmothers | Martin, Ann M. | 3.2 | 1 | Karen and her friends adopt grandparents from Stoneybrook Manor, a local retirement home. | 102 | Y |
| Karen's Home Run | Martin, Ann M. | 2.9 | 1 | Just when the team begins to count on Karen's baseball abilities, she seems to lose them. | 99 | |
| Karen's in Love | Martin, Ann M. | 3 | 1 | Ricky could be Karen's Valentine if they could get along long enough. | 105 | Y |
| Karen's Leprechaun | Martin, Ann M. | 2.8 | 1 | Karen and Andrew are going to be in the St. Patrick's Day parade. | 93 | Y |
| Karen's Little Sister | Martin, Ann M. | 3 | 1 | When Karen's family adopt a little girl, Karen is no longer the littlest sister. | 101 | Y |
| Karen's New Year | Martin, Ann M. | 2.8 | 1 | Karen has a hard time living up to her New Year's resolutions. | 90 | Y |
| Karen's Prize | Martin, Ann M. | 2.9 | 1 | Karen tries for the Junior Spelling Bee Championship of the world. | 105 | Y |
| Karen's Roller Skates | Martin, Ann M. | 2.7 | 1 | While showing off on her skates, Karen falls and breaks her wrist. | 107 | Y |
| Karen's School Trip | Martin, Ann M. | 2.9 | 1 | Karen's class goes to the zoo as part of their study of wild animals. | 97 | Y |
| Karen's Surprise | Martin, Ann M. | 3.2 | 1 | When Karen gets stuck with the role of the Thanksgiving Turkey in the school play, Karen plans a surprise. | 102 | Y |
| Karen's Tattletale | Martin, Ann M. | 3 | 2 | Andrew tattles on Karen for teasing him. | 100 | Y |
| Karen's Toys | Martin, Ann M. | 3.3 | 1 | Karen and Andrew come up with a plan to get a space game toy after their mother tells them no. | 95 | Y |
| Karen's Witch | Martin, Ann M. | 2.7 | 1 | Kristy Thomas, the Baby-Sitters Club President, has a younger sister who is positive that the neighbor is a witch. | 97 | Y |
| Karen's Worst Day | Martin, Ann M. | 2.7 | 1 | From the moment Karen fell out of bed, her day went downhill. | 100 | |
| Kartusch | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.4 | 0.5 | The sleepless Fuzzy Eyefulls learn that there are as many beautiful things to behold in their dreams as there are when they are awake. | 28 | Y |
| Kate's Secret Plan | Saunders, Susan | 4.6 | 3 | In 1926, ten-year-old Kate is convinced that her horse can win the cattle cutting contest at the annual fair and determines to participate even though the contest is open only to boys. | 121 | |
| Katie John | Calhoun, Mary | 4.2 | 4 | Katie John and her family move into an inherited house in order to sell it, but find they don't want to part with it. | 134 | Y |
| Katy and the Big Snow | Burton, Virginia Lee | 2.9 | 0.5 | Katy the huge snow plow saves the people of Geopolis, when winter threatens to shut the entire city down. Reading Rainbow Book. | 36 | Y |
| Keep Smiling Through | Rinaldi, Ann | 3.9 | 5 | A ten-year-old girl living in middle-class America during World War II learns the painful lesson that doing what's right is not always an easy thing to do. | 188 | Y |
| Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie | Roop, Peter/Connie | 2.2 | 0.5 | In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself. | 40 | Y |
| Keeping Secrets | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 5 | 6 | In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who had come to her home in Missouri after fleeing the raid of William Quantrill and his raiders on Lawrence, Kansas. | 163 | Y |
| Kentucky | McNair, Sylvia | 8.8 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Kentucky's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Kestrel, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.2 | 9 | With war in Westmark and the assumption of the throne by Mickie, all Theo's talents are needed, as well as those of his former companions. | 244 | |
| Kevin Corbett Eats Flies | Hermes, Patricia | 3.6 | 5 | Kevin and his friend Bailey conspire to prevent Kevin's father from moving himself and Kevin once again. | 160 | Y |
| Key to the Golden Dog | Capeci, Anne | 4.6 | 4 | Wishbone and Samantha must find out who stole Mr. Ottinger's model railroad system from Pete's pizza parlor before the bad publicity shuts him down. | 140 | |
| Key to the Treasure | Parish, Peggy | 3.2 | 2 | While spending the summer with their grandparents, a trio of children decodes secret messages left many years before by their great-great-grandfather. | 154 | Y |
| Kid in the Red Jacket, The | Park, Barbara | 3.9 | 3 | When ten-year-old Howard has to move with his family to a distant state, he is forced to live on a street named Chester Pewe, adjust to a new school, and get used to being shadowed by the little girl in a nearby house. | 113 | Y |
| Kid Stories | Delisle, Jim | 7.7 | 4 | Life stories of 20 school-age boys and girls who were brave, intelligent, inspirational, or simply friendly, as they faced things that each of us faces. | 168 | |
| Kidnapped | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 7.6 | 14 | David Balfour's uncle has him kidnapped to prevent David from discovering that Shaws, the uncle's estate, is rightfully his own. David meets Alan Breck, and their adventures and narrow escapes from death make Kidnapped an exciting story. | 278 | |
| Kidnappers: A Mystery, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 4.8 | 5 | No one believes eleven-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tall tales, when he claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive private school. | 137 | Y |
| Kidnapping of Courtney Van Allen & What's-Her-Name, The | Cool, Joyce | 5 | 6 | Two girls are brought together in New York City by an eccentric aunt. They embark on a whirlwind adventure and are kidnapped by the craziest collection of criminals ever. | 168 | |
| Kid's Guide to How Plants Grow, A | Ayers, Patricia | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book briefly describes how different kinds of plants grow and reproduce, as well as their importance to life on Earth. | 24 | Y |
| Killer Bees | Blau, Melinda | 5.5 | 1 | The story of a special strain of honeybees developed by man to increase honey production, but which also has a fierce, belligerent, attacking instinct. | 48 | Y |
| Killer Whales (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Killer Whale. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 23 | Y |
| Killer Whales: The Orcas of the Pacific Ocean | Nielsen, Nancy | 4.8 | 0.5 | Includes full-color photographs of Killer Whales or Orcas that inhabit cold coastal waters. | 47 | Y |
| King Cobras (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 4 | 0.5 | Discover more about the King Cobra Snake. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves from dangers. | 21 | Y |
| King of the Wind | Henry, Marguerite | 5.4 | 5 | An Arab stable boy's love for a Sultan's horse begins the line from which Man o' War was sired. | 174 | Y |
| King's Stilts, The | Seuss, Dr. | 4.1 | 0.5 | When the King's stilts are stolen and hidden and he can no longer enjoy his play hour, the whole kingdom is threatened with destruction until a page boy bravely saves the day. | 44 | Y |
| Kirsten Saves the Day | Shaw, Janet | 3.7 | 1 | Kirsten is excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself. | 67 | Y |
| Kirsten's Surprise | Shaw, Janet | 3.9 | 1 | Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm, in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota. | 62 | Y |
| Kiss for Little Bear, A | Minarik, Else Holmelund | 1.4 | 0.5 | When Grandma Bear sends a kiss to Little Bear, it travels a peculiar route through many animals until it finally reaches him. | 32 | Y |
| Kissing Hand, The | Penn, Audrey | 2.7 | 0.5 | When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him. | 27 | Y |
| Kit and Kat | De Paola, Tomie | 1.4 | 0.5 | The adventures of a brother and sister kitten duo. | 32 | |
| Kite, The | Ada, Alma Flor | 1.1 | 0.5 | When the string breaks and the kite Mama made for the children flys away, they discover a lost kitten while looking for the kite. | 14 | Y |
| Kitty from the Start | Delton, Judy | 5.3 | 3 | Kitty moves to a new neighborhood and eventually makes a successful transition into her new third grade. | 141 | Y |
| Kitty in the Middle | Delton, Judy | 4.6 | 3 | First love, a madcap mix-up at a stranger's wedding, and exploring a mysterious old house are some of the experiences that make fourth grade exciting for three friends. | 135 | |
| Kneeknock Rise | Babbitt, Natalie | 4.4 | 2 | Egan goes to visit relatives in Instep, where he encounters an unusual moan that comes from the top of Kneeknock Rise. | 118 | Y |
| Knight (Eyewitness) | Gravett, Christopher | 7.7 | 1 | Origins, rise, and decline of the system of knighthood, chivalry, and the feudal system. | 63 | Y |
| Knight at Dawn, The | Osborne, Mary Pope | 2.9 | 1 | Jack and Annie time travel back to medieval England via a magic tree house. | 65 | Y |
| Knightmare (Strange Matter) | Barnes, Johnny Ray | 4.7 | 3 | Dared by a school friend, Mitchell steals a valuable artifact from an elaborate suit of armor at the museum, beginning a series of terrifying nightmares that could turn out to be all too real. | 125 | |
| Knights Don't Teach Piano | Dadey/Jones | 3.9 | 1 | The kids wonder if the new piano teacher is a knight planning to take over Bailey City. | 66 | |
| Knights of the Kitchen Table | Scieszka, Jon | 3.8 | 1 | When Joe, Fred, and Sam are sent back in time by a magic book, they find themselves face to face with giants, dragons, wizards, King Arthur, and the Knights of the Round Table. | 55 | Y |
| Knots on a Counting Rope | Martin Jr., Bill | 2.8 | 0.5 | Warm, beautifully told story of a young boy and his grandfather, who relates the story of the boy's birth and tries to help the boy face his blindness. | 29 | Y |
| Knucklehead | Press, Skip | 4.3 | 1 | Wilbert learns how to pitch a knuckleball, and his new life seems better. | 50 | Y |
| Koala Lou | Fox, Mem | 3.2 | 0.5 | Koala Lou is feeling unhappy because her mother is too busy to pay attention to her. She decides if she can win the tree climbing contest, maybe her mother will notice. | 32 | Y |
| Koalas (Australian Animals Discovery) | Stone, Lynn M. | 3.6 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristic, behavior, natural habitat, and relationship to humans of the marsupial that looks like a teddy bear. | 24 | Y |
| Koalas (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book provides an introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of koalas. | 24 | Y |
| Koalas for Kids/Koala Magic for Kids | Feeney, Kathy | 5 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the koala, a nocturnal marsupial found only in Australia. | 48 | |
| Kokopelli's Flute | Hobbs, Will | 5.3 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Tepary discovers an old flute in a cliff dwelling in New Mexico, and through its power he learns about ancient Native American Magic. | 148 | |
| Koko's Kitten | Patterson, Francine | 3.5 | 0.5 | The real-life experience of Koko, a gorilla in California who uses sign language, with a kitten whom she loved and grieved over when it died. | 29 | Y |
| Komodo Dragons | Maynard, Thane | 3.9 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of the Komodo Dragon found in Indonesia. | 31 | |
| Komodo Dragons: Giant Lizards of Indonesia | Martin, James | 5.4 | 0.5 | Giant lizards of Indonesia. | 48 | Y |
| Komodo! | Sis, Peter | 1.8 | 0.5 | A young boy who loves dragons goes with his parents to the Indonesian island of Komodo in hopes of seeing a real dragon. | 14 | Y |
| Kristy and Mr. Mom | Martin, Ann M. | 4.3 | 4 | Watson becomes the housekeeper in order to reduce his stress. | 154 | |
| Labrador Retrievers (Dogs) | Kallen, Stuart A. | 3.5 | 0.5 | Discover the Labrador Retriever; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits and needs. | 21 | |
| Lady and the Spider, The | McNulty, Faith | 3.6 | 0.5 | A spider who lives in a head of lettuce is saved when the lady who finds her puts her back into the garden. A Reading Rainbow book. | 42 | Y |
| Lady or the Tiger? (Creative Education), The | Stockton, Frank | 8.6 | 0.5 | A princess must choose the fate for her lover--the lady or the tiger. | 32 | |
| Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam, The | Nhuong, Huynh Quang | 6.1 | 4 | Fifteen true stories of the author's childhood in Vietnam. | 127 | |
| Lassie Come-Home | Knight, Eric | 5.4 | 9 | After being sold because of hard times, Lassie time and again escapes and returns to her beloved Joe. | 230 | |
| Last Battle, The | Lewis, C.S. | 5.6 | 7 | Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise after defeating the evil that had infested Narnia. | 228 | Y |
| Last Man's Reward, The | Patneaude, David | 4.2 | 5 | In hopes of winning the valuable baseball card that he and his new friends have hidden in a remote cave outside Granite Falls, Washington, Albert asks the gruff P. E. teacher at his middle school to help him become a long-jumper. | 192 | Y |
| Last of the Breed, The | Steele, Alexander | 5.2 | 5 | While Wishbone and his friends try to come up with a plan to stop a local real estate developer from destroying part of a beautiful park, Wishbone imagines himself as Hawkeye, the brave scout from James Fennimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." | 163 | |
| Last One In (Strange Matter), The | Engle, Marty M. | 4.1 | 3 | Thirteen-year-old Michelle, her older sister, and a neighbor boy explore a lakeside cavern searching for a monster which some people think is only a hoax. | 125 | |
| Later, Rover | Ziefert, Harriet | 0.9 | 0.5 | When Andy asks members of his family to play with him, they all say "later". | 29 | Y |
| Lazy Lions, Lucky Lambs | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.7 | 1 | For Richard "Beast" Best, March is the worst time of the year, with report cards and the fear of being held back again. | 73 | Y |
| Learning to Ride Horses and Ponies | Budd, Jackie | 6.1 | 2 | This is a guide to riding horses and ponies, with such topics as getting started, how to mount, sitting right, riding in groups, and jumping. | 64 | |
| Legend of Luke, The | Jacques, Brian | 5.7 | 16 | When Martin the Warrior leaves Redwall Abbey and embarks upon a journey to the place of his birth, he learns about the brave and noble deeds of his father Luke, a real Warrior Chieftain. | 374 | Y |
| Legend of Red Horse Cavern, The | Paulsen, Gary | 3.5 | 1 | Will and Sarah get lost in the caverns of the Sacramento Mountains. | 55 | Y |
| Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The | Irving, Washington | 11 | 3 | This is the rollicking tale of Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster, who challenges his rival, Brom Bones, for the love and fortune of Katrina Van Tassel. | 104 | Y |
| Legend of the Bluebonnet, The | De Paola, Tomie | 4.2 | 0.5 | Luminous paintings capture the essence of a favorite Indian tale of a courageous small girl in the land now called Texas. | 22 | Y |
| Legend of the Lost Legend | Stine, R.L. | 3.1 | 3 | The woods of Brovania are filled with the strangest creatures. | 122 | Y |
| Legend of the Poinsettia, The | De Paola, Tomie | 3.6 | 0.5 | Retelling of the Mexican legend of how the poinsettia came to be. | 28 | Y |
| Lemming Condition, The | Arkin, Alan | 4.3 | 1 | A young lemming is haunted by doubts about the purpose of the great march westward to the sea. | 58 | |
| Lemonade Trick, The | Corbett, Scott | 4.9 | 3 | Kerby discovers a recipe for lemonade that turns the worst people into the nicest. Unfortunately, with nice people, the opposite is true. | 103 | Y |
| Lemurs (Nature's Children) | Kite, Lorien | 6.1 | 0.5 | This book discusses the physical characteristics, diet, habitat, and behavior of the Lemur. | 48 | |
| Lemurs and Other Animals of the Madagascar Rain Forest | Martin, James | 4.8 | 0.5 | Lemurs are like humans in many ways. They are curious and very careful when something new appears in the forest. | 47 | Y |
| Leo the Late Bloomer | Kraus, Robert | 1.2 | 0.5 | Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the eyes of very anxious parents. | 27 | Y |
| Leo the Lop | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.5 | 0.5 | Leo, the rabbit whose ears are different from all the other rabbits, learns that 'normal is whatever you are.' | 26 | Y |
| Leopards (Wild Cats) | Welsbacher, Anne | 3.3 | 0.5 | This book describes the social, feeding, and hunting behaviors, as well as physical characteristics and life cycles of these big cats. | 24 | Y |
| Leprechaun in the Basement, The | Tucker, Kathy | 3.5 | 0.5 | After encountering a leprechaun, Michael McKeever asks him to help with his family's money problems, but unable to part with his gold, the wee man finds another way to help. | 32 | |
| Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball | Dadey/Jones | 3.8 | 1 | The students at Bailey Elementary School think their gym teacher is a leprechaun. | 71 | |
| Let the Circle Be Unbroken | Taylor, Mildred D. | 5.7 | 15 | This inspiring story of a loving, close-knit black family confronted with racial injustice contributes to a deeper understanding of what it means to be black today. | 339 | Y |
| Let's Get Invisible! | Stine, R.L. | 3.3 | 3 | Max finds a magic mirror in the attic that can make him invisible. Getting invisible is turning into a dangerous game when Max has trouble coming back. | 139 | Y |
| Let's Have a Play | Hillert, Margaret | 0.9 | 0.5 | On a rainy day, two children decide to make paper-bag puppets and put on a play for themselves and their parents. | 31 | Y |
| Letter, the Witch, and the Ring, The | Bellairs, John | 4.7 | 6 | Rose Rita tries to help a beleaguered witch and is plunged into a world of occult danger. | 188 | Y |
| Letters from Rifka | Hesse, Karen | 4.2 | 4 | Rifka and her family flee the pogroms in Russia in 1919 and cross the Atlantic to land on Ellis Island. | 148 | Y |
| Levers (Simple Machines) | Glover, David | 4.3 | 0.5 | Introduces the principles of levers as simple machines, using examples from everyday life. | 24 | Y |
| Libby on Wednesday | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 6.3 | 8 | Having been put ahead in an accelerated eighth-grade program by her bizarre and creative family, precocious eleven-year-old Libby hates her "socialization" process until she makes some highly original friends in a writing workshop. | 196 | Y |
| Librarian from the Black Lagoon, The | Thaler, Mike | 3.2 | 0.5 | Sometimes things "they" say are not always true, as in the case of the school librarian. | 30 | |
| Light in the Forest, The | Richter, Conrad | 5.5 | 5 | A four-year-old white boy is adopted into an Indian warrior tribe. | 120 | Y |
| Light on Hogback Hill, The | DeFelice, Cynthia | 4.6 | 4 | A girl befriends and learns the truth about the deformed recluse she had previously feared. | 139 | Y |
| Lighthouse Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.2 | 2 | Renting a lighthouse is unusual, but even more so is an unfriendly boy's peculiar behavior. | 128 | Y |
| Like Father, Like Son | Schraff, Anne | 4.2 | 3 | Ric Salas has some pretty strange neighbors. When a teacher is stabbed, the mystery starts. | 137 | |
| Lila on the Landing | Alexander, Sue | 3.1 | 1 | Lila, always the last to be chosen for games by the other children, earns their interest and acceptance by creating her own imaginative activities on the landing of her apartment house. | 55 | |
| Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse | Henkes, Kevin | 3.1 | 0.5 | Lily loves everything about school, especially her teacher; but when he asks her to wait awhile before showing her new purse, she does something she is very sorry for later. | 28 | Y |
| Lincoln: A Photobiography | Freedman, Russell | 7.7 | 5 | Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President. | 150 | Y |
| Line Drive | Hughes, Dean | 3.9 | 2 | When Jeff Reinhold breaks his leg, a small Asian boy named Lian Jie becomes the new second baseman. | 85 | |
| Linnea in Monet's Garden | Bjork, Christina | 4.5 | 1 | When Linnea visits Claude Monet's garden she explores Monet's life and what an being an impressionist is all about. | 53 | Y |
| Lion and Lamb | Brenner, Barbara | 2 | 0.5 | Lamb sees through the fierce reputation of her friend Lion and recognizes him for the gentle pussycat he really is. | 43 | Y |
| Lion and the Mouse, The | Herman, Gail | 0.7 | 0.5 | An adverturesome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle. | 32 | |
| Lion to Guard Us, A | Bulla, Clyde Robert | 2.9 | 2 | Left on their own in London, three impoverished children draw upon their resources to stay together and make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father. | 115 | Y |
| Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The | Lewis, C.S. | 5.7 | 6 | Aslan, the noble lion, frees Narnia from the spell of the White Witch. | 206 | Y |
| Lions (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book discusses lions, their habits and habitat, and includes several lion-related activities. | 24 | Y |
| Lions (Wild Cats) | Welsbacher, Anne | 3.4 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, social, feeding, and hunting behavior, and life cycle of the big cat. | 24 | Y |
| Lions at Lunchtime | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa, where they meet up with some wonderful animals and where they even solve a mystery. | 70 | Y |
| Lipizzaner Horses | Schrenk, Hans-Jorg | 6.2 | 0.5 | This is a study of Lipizzaner Horses. | 48 | |
| Little Cats (Crabapples) | Kalman/Everts | 3.4 | 0.5 | This book examines various species of little cats, with attention to their appearance, behavior, habitat, and breeding. | 32 | Y |
| Little Cats (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book describes some of the smaller members of the cat family, including the cheetah, puma, and fishing cat. | 24 | Y |
| Little Drummer Boy, The | Davis et al, Katherine | 1.4 | 0.5 | An illustrated version of the Christmas carol about the procession to Bethlehem and the offer of a poor boy to play his drum for the Christ Child. | 29 | |
| Little Engine That Could, The | Piper, Watty | 3.5 | 0.5 | The story of the little blue engine that thought she could pull the heavy train and did. | 37 | Y |
| Little House in the Big Woods | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5.3 | 5 | The Ingalls family is snug in their Wisconsin house in spite of blizzards, wolves, and the lonely forest. | 238 | Y |
| Little House on Rocky Ridge | MacBride, Roger Lea | 4.2 | 8 | A continuation of the Little House On The Prairie series as the Wilders move out on their own. | 353 | Y |
| Little House on the Prairie | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 4.9 | 8 | Laura and her family journey by covered wagon into Indian territory, and start a farm. | 335 | Y |
| Little House, The | Burton, Virginia Lee | 4.2 | 0.5 | Beautifully illustrated story of a little house threatened by progress when tall buildings envelop the countryside. | 40 | Y |
| Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, The | Williams, Linda | 3.5 | 0.5 | A little old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through the dark woods trying to scare her. | 29 | Y |
| Little Pet Werewolf | Stone, Tom B. | 3.9 | 3 | It's pet day at Graveyard School and everyone is excited! Everyone except Skip Wolfson, that is. Skip wishes he could bring in some kind of really cool pet - like a werewolf. He's in the shock of his life when he doesn't have to search too far for one! | 103 | |
| Little Prince, The | de Saint-Exupery, Antoine | 5 | 2 | This enchanting fable tells the story of a pilot downed in the Sahara and a boy from outer space who teaches him the meaning of life. | 111 | Y |
| Little Princess (Unabridged), A | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 6 | 11 | In this children's classic novel, the wealthy and gifted little girl Sara Crewe must adjust to a different life when her father dies penniless. | 312 | Y |
| Little Red Hen, The | Algie, Amy | 1.4 | 0.5 | The little red hen has to do all the work. | 24 | |
| Little Red Hen, The | Giles, Jenny | 2 | 0.5 | The little red hen can't find anyone to help her plant the wheat, harvest it, grind it into flour and bake bread. After all her hard work, the bread is ready to eat and the little red hen learns who her friends really are. | 31 | |
| Little Red Hen, The | Alonso, Fernando | 2.6 | 0.5 | The adventures of a little red hen as he carries the wheat crop to market. | 16 | Y |
| Little Red Riding Hood | Hillert, Margaret | 1.1 | 0.5 | Retells in preprimer words the tale of the little girl who meets a wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother. | 31 | Y |
| Little Riders, The | Shemin, Margaretha | 5.4 | 2 | An American girl living in Nazi-occupied Holland resents the presence of a German soldier quartered in her grandparents' home, until the night she tries to hide part of the town's treasured clock mechanism. | 76 | Y |
| Little Town on the Prairie | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5.4 | 9 | Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school but becomes a certified schoolteacher. | 307 | Y |
| Little Women (Part I and II) (Unabridged) | Alcott, Louisa May | 7.9 | 33 | This story is based on the family life of the author and her sisters and their diverse personalities as they grew up. This complete edition contains both Book 1 "Little Women," and Book 2 "Good Wives." | 475 | |
| Littles, The | Peterson, John | 3.3 | 1 | The Littles, tiny people who live within the walls of the Biggs' house, fear mice. | 80 | Y |
| Lizard Music | Pinkwater, Daniel | 4.9 | 5 | When left to take care of himself, a young boy becomes involved with a community of intelligent lizards who tell him of a little-known invasion from outer space. | 136 | Y |
| Lizards (Remarkable Reptiles) | Gerholdt, James E. | 4.2 | 0.5 | Examines the lizard, a remarkable reptile. | 23 | Y |
| Llamas (A True Book) | Lepthien, Emilie U. | 5.4 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and habits of llamas and their relatives. | 48 | Y |
| Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story | Young, Ed | 3.5 | 0.5 | Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother. | 27 | Y |
| Loner, The | Wier, Ester | 5.3 | 5 | A lonely boy with no name and no memory wanders the southwest until he finds a home with a sheep rancher. | 151 | Y |
| Long Way from Chicago, A | Peck, Richard | 5 | 5 | A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. | 148 | Y |
| Long Winter, The | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5.3 | 10 | Almanzo Wilder makes a dangerous trip to save the village from starvation. | 335 | Y |
| Looking at...Ankylosaurus | Brown, Mike | 5.2 | 0.5 | A look at the armored reptile that roamed from Mongolia to North America during the Cretaceous period. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus | Coleman, Graham | 5.6 | 0.5 | A look at the Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus. | 24 | |
| Looking at...Baryonyx | Green, Tamara | 5.6 | 0.5 | A look at the Baryonyx, a dinosaur from the Cretaceous period. | 24 | |
| Looking at...Brachiosaurus | Amery, Heather | 5.4 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and probable behavior of this herbivorous dinosaur with spiked thumbs. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Carnotaurus | Green, Tamara | 6.4 | 0.5 | Provides information about how the carnotaurus, a fierce, crested predator living in Argentina during the Cretaceous period, may have looked and behaved. | 23 | Y |
| Looking at...Chasmosaurus | Amery, Heather | 5.4 | 0.5 | Learn more about this prehistoric creature from the Cretaceous Period. | 24 | |
| Looking at...Coelophysis | Coleman, Graham | 5.6 | 0.5 | A look at a cannibal dinosaur from the Triassic period. | 24 | |
| Looking at...Deinonychus | Brown, Mike | 5.8 | 0.5 | A look at a fierce dinosaur who walked upright on its hind legs. | 24 | |
| Looking at...Diplodocus | Coleman, Graham | 5.5 | 0.5 | Enter the world of the enormous plant-eater that roamed North America during the Jurassic period. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Gallimimus | Brown, Mike | 5.6 | 0.5 | A look at a dinosaur that resembled an ostrich. | 24 | |
| Looking at...Hypsilophodon | Coleman, Graham | 6 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and probable behavior of this two-legged plant-eating dinosaur built for speed. | 23 | Y |
| Looking at...Iguanodon | Vaughan, Jenny | 5.2 | 0.5 | A realistic and scientifically accurate picture of a dinosaur's daily life. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Maiasaura | Vaughan, Jenny | 5.1 | 0.5 | A look at the lizard that lived in groups and built huge nests for its young during the Cretaceous period. | 24 | |
| Looking at...Megalosaurus | Coleman, Graham | 5.7 | 0.5 | A look at the Megalosaurus, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period. | 24 | |
| Looking at...Mussaurus | Green, Tamara | 6.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces Mussaurus, a South American dinosaur, and one of the rarest that paleontologists have found so far. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...New Dinosaur Discoveries | Green, Tamara | 6.9 | 0.5 | This book examines many new amazing discoveries and fact about dinosaurs, including many new species being discovered and how they lived. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Ornitholestes | Green, Tamara | 6.1 | 0.5 | Provides information about how the ornitholestes, a small, quick carnivore that lived in North America in the Jurassic period, may have looked and behaved. | 23 | Y |
| Looking at...Ouranosaurus | Freedman, Frances | 5.7 | 0.5 | A look at the Ouranosaurus, a dinosaur from the Cretaceous period. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Oviraptor | Green, Tamara | 6 | 0.5 | Read and learn more about this fascinating creature that had a strange appetite for raw eggs. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Pachycephalosaurus | Freedman, Frances | 5.9 | 0.5 | An in-depth study of the Pachycephalosauraus, a dinosaur from the Cretaceous period. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Parasaurolophus | Coleman, Graham | 5.6 | 0.5 | Enter the world of the crested, duck-billed reptile that wandered the North American forests during the Cretaceous period. | 24 | |
| Looking at...Plesiosaurus | Amery, Heather | 5.5 | 0.5 | An introduction to the ocean-going reptile of the warm Jurassic period. | 24 | |
| Looking at...Procompsognathus | Freedman, Frances | 6.2 | 0.5 | Provides information about how the procompsognathus, a small carnivore that lived during the Triassic Period, may have looked and behaved. | 23 | Y |
| Looking at...Protoceratops | Amery, Heather | 5.3 | 0.5 | A realistic and scientifically accurate picture of a Protoceratop dinosaur's daily life. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Psittacosaurus | Green, Tamara | 6 | 0.5 | Read about this curious creature from the Cretaceous Period that from its head alone, looked as if it might have belonged to the parrot family. | 24 | |
| Looking at...Pterodactylus | Coleman, Graham | 5.4 | 0.5 | A look at a flying dinosaur of the Jurassic period. | 24 | |
| Looking at...Stegosaurus | Amery, Heather | 5.4 | 0.5 | A scientific look at Stegosaurus, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...The Dinosaur Atlas | Green, Tamara | 6.7 | 0.5 | Descriptions of various dinosaurs and their fossil remains, arranged according to the continents on which they were discovered. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Triceratops | Vaughan, Jenny | 5.4 | 0.5 | A realistic and scientifically accurate picture of a Triceratop dinosaur's daily life. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Troodon | Anthony, Laurence | 6.4 | 0.5 | Examines the physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and enemies of Troodon, one of the most-advanced dinosaurs of all. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Tyrannosaurus rex | Amery, Heather | 5.5 | 0.5 | A realistic and scientifically accurate picture of a Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur's daily life. | 24 | Y |
| Looking at...Velociraptor | Amery, Heather | 5.3 | 0.5 | Enter the world of the small, fierce predator that lived in the Gobi Desert during the Cretaceous period. | 24 | Y |
| Lorax, The | Seuss, Dr. | 3.1 | 0.5 | The Once-ler describes the results of the local pollution problem. | 61 | Y |
| Lost City of the Jedi, The | Davids, Paul/Hollace | 5.9 | 3 | A Jedi prince becomes a threat to Trioculus in this Star Wars spinoff. | 94 | |
| Lostman's River | DeFelice, Cynthia | 5.4 | 6 | Tyler hides from the law in the Florida swamps where he learns about that imperiled environment. | 160 | Y |
| Loudmouth George and the Sixth-Grade Bully | Carlson, Nancy | 3.1 | 0.5 | After having his lunch repeatedly stolen by a bully twice his size, Loudmouth George and his friend Harriet teach him a lesson he'll never forget. | 28 | Y |
| Louisiana | Kent, Deborah | 8.4 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Louisiana's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Louisiana Blue | Hubbard, Coleen | 4.7 | 2 | When her beloved American Saddlebred horse Blue is stolen and her friend Yonie's father is accused of the theft, Patience fights to find Blue and unmask the true thief. | 120 | |
| Love You Forever | Munsch, Robert N. | 3.4 | 0.5 | A young woman tells her son, throughout his childhood, how she loves him, until a time when the son has a daughter of his own and passes on the same message of love. | 28 | Y |
| Love, from the Fifth-Grade Celebrity | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 4.7 | 3 | Casey and Tracy are good friends. When Tracy moves, she and Casey begin to go to school together. Can their friendship be saved? | 118 | Y |
| Lucky Baseball Bat, The | Christopher, Matt | 3.2 | 1 | Marty loses his lucky baseball bat and his confidence along with it, and wonders if he will recover both in time to help the Tigers win the championship. | 58 | |
| Lucky Bear | Phillips, Joan | 0.5 | 0.5 | An intrepid teddy bear falls from a toy store window and begins an adventure while looking for a child to love him. | 30 | Y |
| Lucky Dog Days | Delton, Judy | 2.9 | 1 | August is Help-a-Pet month, so the scouts head for the local pound to help out. | 69 | Y |
| Lucky Stone, The | Clifton, Lucille | 4.4 | 1 | Young Tee loved to hear the stories of good-luck that accompany her grandmother's lucky stone, but she needs some good luck herself, and the stone doesn't belong to her. | 62 | Y |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Hargrove, Jim | 8.3 | 2 | Surveys the life of the Texas politician who became America's thirty-sixth President and faced great public controversy during the war in Vietnam. | 89 | Y |